2026 Impact Report

2026 IMPACT REPORT

Impact Report 2026

TABLEOFCONTENTS LETTER FROM OUR FOUNDER

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EMERGING LEADERS

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THE STORY OF ARRABON

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FELLOW SPOTLIGHT

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VISION + MISSION

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FINANCIAL REPORT

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EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

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PARTNERS AND BOARD

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IMPACT STORIES

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LETTER FROM OUR CEO

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THE ARRABON APP

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FEATURED OFFERINGS

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THE WINDING ROAD

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Letter from Our Founder The vision for Arrabon began when many Christians believed reconciliation ministries would soon become unnecessary. In 2008, with the election of Barack Obama, a hopeful narrative emerged that America was entering a post-racial future where people would finally be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. For some Christians, Obama’s election represented progress. For others, disappointment and fear. Over the next eighteen years, through election cycles, cultural upheavals, and national crises, that pattern repeated itself. Hope and despair traded places along partisan lines again and again.

What became clear over time is that our deepest fractures were never merely political. They were spiritual. Political extremes began shaping the communal imagination of the Church, influencing how Christians understood their neighbors, their enemies, and even their faith.

Political progress and spiritual formation are not the same thing. Beneath every cultural debate were deeper questions about who is forming us, who is discipling us, and how we are learning to be human together.

And yet, across these eighteen years, there has remained a remnant of Christ-followers searching for another way. People longing to love God, their neighbors, and even their enemies as Jesus commanded. They are searching for trusted guides who can help them embody habits of healing and hope rooted in the Kingdom while living in an increasingly fragmented world. Arrabon has had the privilege of walking alongside these siblings in Christ.

When I reflect on Arrabon’s footprint after nearly two decades of personally laboring in the field, I am encouraged by the fruit of a long obedience in the same direction. I was the first African American to preach at a white church founded in 1858. Some congregants immediately complained to their pastor about my preaching. But over two years of patient spiritual formation, the community began to change. More than a decade later, that church is partnering with the African American congregation down the street to foster economic flourishing in their county, particularly among the most economically vulnerable.

I also celebrate our journey with a woman who spent years learning with us and eventually began asking what her particular work in the world might be. Recognizing that one of the greatest injustices in our society is unequal access to education, she used her fundraising skills to start a quality private school accessible to lower-income families. Because her vision is rooted in the Kingdom of God, she has intentionally cultivated a school community that is economically, racially, and ethnically diverse.

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In the years since Arrabon’s founding, we have engaged thousands of Christ-followers with practical tools and resourcing in the journey of spiritual formation. Over the last two years, we have made our resources even more accessible to individuals committed to this work.

Through our app and experiential learning journeys, we have equipped organizations, denominational leaders, pastors, and ministry leaders with practices for cultivating communities of reconciliation. What stories of fruitful faithfulness will be told ten years from now because of the seeds planted today?

Yet, I also carry real grief about our present moment. In 2020, the church in America suddenly seemed hungry for the kind of reconciliation we had been quietly cultivating for years. At the time, I was grateful. Now I can see that season through the lens of the parable of the sower.

The seed was good, and the sower faithful, but much of the soil was shallow. What looked like a harvest was often enthusiasm without roots: statements without practices, conversations without formation, commitments unable to survive the next news cycle. I sometimes long for the earlier years, when there was enough openness and trust to cultivate the deeper spiritual formation that might have better prepared the Church to meet this moment with wisdom, courage, and love.

Since 2025, many have stepped back from reconciliation work because of cultural backlash.

But the ministry of reconciliation was commissioned by God long before any executive order, partisan framework, or political trend. Our commitment to peacemaking cannot rise and fall with the approval or hostility of a cultural moment. We cannot cede the sacred work of reconciliation to conflict entrepreneurs and political opportunists who continue profiting from discord and the unraveling of our social fabric.

The world does not need louder voices or stronger tribes. It needs communities of Christfollowers capable of making peace in the midst of conflict, repairing what is breached, and practicing sacrificial neighbor-love. That work is slower than a movement, quieter than a campaign, and more durable than either. I invite you to join us in this long obedience in the same direction.

Shalom,

David M. Bailey

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The Story of Arrabon

Arrabon / air * ě * bon' / noun

From the Greek ἀρραβών 1. a pledge, guarantee, deposit of things to come

The word arrabon (ἀρραβών) appears in the New Testament as a term for a first installment — a deposit that both guarantees and previews what is fully coming. Paul uses it to describe the Holy Spirit as God's own arrabon within us: a present, living pledge of the kingdom yet to be revealed (2 Cor. 1:22; Eph. 1:14). The name we carry is not incidental — it is a theology. Every reconciling community we help cultivate is meant to function the same way: as a down payment of God's renewed world, a tangible sign that healing is not only possible but already breaking in.

We don't chase after a distant hope; we seek to embody a deposit already made.

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Our Vision We envision a world where all Christ-followers engage in reconciliation as a reflection of love of God and working for the flourishing of their neighbors.

We believe that healing begins with our integrative presence – bringing our whole selves, body, mind and spirit to the work of reconciliation – bearing witness to the imago Dei that creates a pathway for truly belonging to each other.

As we embody the work of healing, we are confident that Holy Spirit will renew our families, neighborhoods, and our world as a sign of the kingdom to come.

Our Mission Arrabon is a spiritual formation ministry that equips Christ-followers to actively and creatively pursue healing and reconciliation in their communities.

We embody this by cultivating the capacity to build Reconciling Communities.

Learn More About Who Arrabon Is

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Experiential Learning: An Invitation to the Journey of Healing and Repair Tacoma

Boston

Washington, D.C

El Paso

Selma Austin

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Montgomery

St. Augustine

New Orleans

SATRINA’S STORY

PARTICIPANTS

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IMPACT STORIES

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"I am full of gratitude to Arrabon... Their approach is distinctive because of the emphasis on supporting the whole person — mind, body, and spirit. I am encouraged to know that Arrabon is equipping the church to become reconciling communities where people can experience the love of Christ."

D.C. Participant "I come from a predominately white context that doesn't always value creativity, so to be able to be in a diverse space that honors imaginative ways of processing is incredibly valuable to me. Most of my work is focused on spiritual formation, and it was really beautiful to see this as a priority in ways my soul desires; I felt less alone, more understood, and like the way my brain works matters."

Montgomery Participant "This experience is vital to offer right now. The media and politicians are painting false pictures, such that it seems like the only way to understand the truth about our borders is to see it with our own eyes. Framing all of it inside an invitation to listen to what Holy Spirit is saying through my emotions adds a depth of learning that is often missing in experiential trips. I plan to encourage my church leaders to include that element in all our discipleship work around cross-cultural engagement."

El Paso Participant

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Equipping Christ-Followers on the Journey of Reconciliation

Arrabon App Built for individuals and communities who want to pursue reconciliation not as a one-time event, but as a way of life, the Formation Hub offers reflections, resources, practices, and practical tools to help you engage the work of healing, justice, and belonging right where you live and lead. Whether you’re on your own journey of formation or cultivating a community that embodies God’s heart for reconciliation, the Formation Hub is designed to walk alongside you. You can download the app or access the hub on your device of choice.

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575 APP USERS

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Featured Offerings Juneteenth Resource Collection In June 2026, we called the Arrabon community to host a watch party of the documentary, Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom and engage with other recommended resources.

Prayer of Examen This Prayer of Examen, adapted for our divided moment, invites reflective, humble engagement with God's presence as a counter to quick reactions and false binaries. More than 500 people have engaged in this practice since its release in 2024.

Lament Practice Lament is the ancient biblical practice of bringing raw grief, anger, and honest questions before God rather than rushing past pain toward resolution — naming what is broken while still trusting God's presence within it. For the work of reconciliation, lament refuses cheap peace, making space to mourn historical and present wounds honestly before moving toward repair.

Visio Divina Practice This contemplative practice invites us to reflect on Kerry James Marshall's "Now and Forever" windows at the National Cathedral, a profound act of repair replacing Confederate iconography with a vision of justice and healing. Participants will be guided in unhurried, prayerful "seeing," reflecting on reconciliation not only as public work, but as spiritual formation, in a practice developed for Comment Magazine's Understory Festival in May 2026.

Arrabon Conversations: The Imago Dei A conversation between Arrabon team members in a series exploring core theological principles that guide Arrabon’s work. This video explores the centrality of a robust theology of the Imago Dei to the work of reconciliation and healing.

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Resource Highlight: The Winding Road

“The Winding Road” is a six-week devotional series designed to invite Christ-followers into deeper spiritual formation and reflection. In the midst of a world marked by disorientation, division, and pain, this devotional will guide you along the path toward reconciliation and healing. Each week, you’ll be led through prayer practices, Scripture reflections, spoken word, and musical art to help you embody the hope of Christ and pursue His call for wholeness in our communities. This devotional was designed for the Lenten season, but can be used anytime throughout the year.

1,000+ downloads since Lent 2025

Check out The Winding Road

This devotional, produced in partnership with The Porter’s Gate, was borne out of an Experiential Learning Journey in Montgomery, AL with over two dozen Gen-Z leaders and creatives.

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Empowering Emerging Leaders Receipt of Lily Grant for Young Adult Innovation Engagement

MARCH

2022 SEPTEMBER

2023 Montgomery Experiential Learning Journey with Gen-Z Creatives & Leaders

Laity Lodge Retreat with Gen-Z Creatives and Leaders

NOVEMBER

2024 FEBRUARY

2025 “The Winding Road” Release

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Arrabon Young Adult Fellow Spotlight: Jazer Willis Tell us about yourself. How do you show up in the world?

Why is the work of Arrabon needed among emerging generations and cultural moment?

My name is Jazer Willis, and I am a writer. I show up in the world as a storyteller and a witness, someone committed to paying attention to what it truly means to be here. I seek to love my neighbor and let my light shine through the fragmented mirrors that make up my life, trusting that each fragment reflects something larger than myself.

The work of Arrabon is needed among emerging generations and in this particular cultural moment because I believe many people are longing for more genuine human interaction and less commodification of the human spirit. We live in a world that often encourages people to perform, curate, and package themselves rather than simply be themselves. As a result, many are searching for spaces where they can show up honestly, be known deeply, and belong without pretense.

The callings I carry are many. Whether I am writing poetry, preaching, mentoring, or connecting with someone over coffee, I feel most alive in the presence of people and their stories. I am deeply interested in how individuals understand themselves, what stories they inherit, what stories they resist, and what stories they find themselves within, from the sweep of human history to the traditions, sayings, and communities that have shaped them. My vocation is rooted in helping people recognize meaning in their own narratives.

Arrabon offers that kind of space. It invites the whole person into the room, not just their accomplishments, but also their questions. It creates an environment where people can discover and cultivate the tools God has already placed within them and blossom into who they were created to be.

How has your connection to Arrabon impacted your own formation over the last few years?

My connection to Arrabon has profoundly shaped my personal and spiritual formation. Through Arrabon, I have built meaningful relationships, expanded my network of peers and mentors, and grown in both emotional and spiritual capacity.

More importantly, Arrabon has helped me embrace my authentic self. It has provided a space where I have been encouraged to show up fully as the person God has fearfully and wonderfully made me to be. Through its community, I have learned to lead with greater honesty, vulnerability, and confidence, while continuing to grow in my understanding of who I am and how I am called to serve others. The relationships and lessons I have gained through Arrabon continue to influence the way I move through the world and engage with my faith and community.

Arrabon team members (left to right) at the Understory Festival in Washington, D.C; Jazer Willis (Arrabon Fellow), Jaclyn Stokes (Engagement Manager), Kadeem Massiah (Director of Engagement), Liz Johnson (Development Consultant), Beth Cossin (Chief Executive Officer), Jeremiah X. Gómez (Board Member)

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Arrabon Financial Report FY 2025 Other 3% Fees for Services 18.6%

INCOME

Individual & Church contributions 46.8%

INDIVIDUAL & CHURCH CONTRIBUTIONS

$528,699

GRANTS

$357,043

FEES FOR SERVICES

$210,653

OTHER

$33,495

TOTAL FY 2025 INCOME:

Grants 31.6%

$1,129,890

Development 10.4%

EXPENSES PROGRAM

$899,724

GENERAL & ADMINISTRATIVE

$267,137

DEVELOPMENT

$135,905

TOTAL FY 2025 EXPENSES:

$1,302,766

General & Administrative 20.5%

Program 69.1%

Per our board-approved budget, expenses exceeded revenue in FY25 to draw down on grant funds received and recorded in prior fiscal years. Data based on Arrabon’s audited financials; summarized for clarity.

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Stewarding Generative Relationships We need one another on this journey of healing and are grateful for relationships with other organizations that allow us all to go further together.

Board of Directors

Nikolle Reyes Board Chair | Founder, Metaleap Creative

Kevin Young, Esq. Secretary | General Counsel for Upland Exploration, Inc.

Kristi Epp Treasurer | Tax, Senior Manager, Frazier & Deeter, LLC

Kim Robinson Retired VP, P&G, North American Mission Board & CEO National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Rev. Jeremiah X. Gómez Lead Pastor, Trinity Church David Bailey Founder & Chief Vision Officer | Arrabon Beth Cossin Chief Executive Officer, Ex-Officio | Arrabon

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Letter from our CEO There is much to be grateful for in this work of reconciliation that Arrabon is blessed to steward. As we reflect on the past years together, we hope you have been encouraged by what God has done and are excited about what lies ahead.

We celebrate God's faithfulness to Arrabon and the harvest we have witnessed. Dr. King famously said, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." There is an invitation to sit in mystery when we consider these words. We see this truth play out time and again, but may wonder, how does it bend?

We believe it bends as we faithfully show up, engage in the work of reconciliation, and contend for spaces of healing and repair as arc benders.

In the coming year, we are bending this arc as we launch our new spiritual formation resource, Cultivating Kinship, designed to equip Christ-followers to navigate hard conversations across divides with compassionate curiosity, embodied faith, and steadfast hope. Our new Advent Devotional will invite us to move toward Christ in new ways as we engage the power of the Incarnation. Learning alongside our Arrabon community through shared experiences in locations across the United States has been a great joy. Bearing witness to so many stories of transformation — as people have encountered painful narratives about our shared history, examined their own place within them, and emerged from these journeys more spiritually formed as ambassadors of reconciliation — has deepened our resolve to keep contending for these vital spaces of healing.

Our first newsletter of 2026 issued an invitation to "Go Further Together." This remains our clarion call: to link arms with fellow Christ-followers committed to a shared journey marked by humility, considering others better than ourselves, and by honoring the imago Dei in every human being. Each one of us has an opportunity to be generative even within landscapes of scarcity, and to remind one another that our hope is not anchored in the news of the day, but in a steadfast belief that the reconciliation of all things remains Good News for all people.

This journey of reconciliation takes all of us. In the face of the brokenness and despair surrounding us, we invite you to be an arc bender. Stay connected with us as part of the Arrabon community — sign up for our newsletter, download our app, learn with us, and engage one of our formation resources. But there is one more way your partnership can bend the arc further: by partnering financially in this work.

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Every gift equips pastors, leaders, and everyday believers to step into hard conversations with courage instead of fear, and to choose the slow, faithful work of healing over the easy path of division. The need around us is urgent, and so is the opportunity in front of us right now. We would be honored if you chose to partner with Arrabon today — through a one-time gift or a recurring monthly investment — to help carry this work forward in the year ahead?

Every act of generosity, large or small, is an act of hope: a tangible declaration that reconciliation is worth investing in. Thank you for joining us as a partner in this sacred work.

Further Together,

Beth Cossin

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